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                                                    “Never Never Nest”  by Cedric Mount  Summary of "Never Never Nest"   The “Never-Never Nest” by Cedric Mount is a one-act play about a young couple named Jack and Jill.  This one act play humorously explains how people fall prey for the scheme of buy- now- pay- later" marketing strategy.  .It is very relevant today as  people buy most things in installments just because of the simple reason they don't need to pay the full amount. The playwright satirises people’s addiction for buying things in instalments.  The play condemns the so called trend of young couples, who possess the habit of purchasing household items and houses in easy instalments. In the play, the  young couple “Jack and Jill” make full use of   the buy-now-pay-later marketing system . J ack and ...

  Unit – 5 White Paper Sharan Kumar Lumbale Summary of the poem "White Paper" T he  poem depicts the pain of Dalits being rejected and outcast in the society, which   equally belongs to them,  by the upper cast.  Dalits have not done any harm to any upper cast in India. Still they are met with utmost  hatred and disrespect by other members of the society. In the poem the poet is expressing his deepest desire to be treated as a human being which suggests the horrible and pathetic condition of the people belonging to lower casts. In the beginning lines of the poem the poet says he rejects all the physical, material,religious and sensual comforts that are available to people of higher cast for many centuries.In return he asks only for basic rights which are essential for any human being for existence. In the next lines the poet is making clear that he wants his rights not as a beggar but as a rightful recipient.He says that each breath from his lungs...

 Unit – 4  Telephone Conversation  Wole Soyinka Summary of the poem “Telephone Conversation” is a poem by the Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka that exposes racism.  The poem describes a telephone conversation between a landlady and the speaker, who is black, about renting an apartment. The opening line shows that the black man is aware of the double standards. He makes a phone call to confirm if the room is truly available for a black man. It also reveals that the black man has had bitter experiences in the past.   At first the landlady seems ready to move forward with renting to the speaker, even swearing that she lived  off premises.   But when the speaker  makes a “self-confession” about being “African,” she is shifting the conversation abruptly to a discussion of skin tone.T he  landlady demands to know how "light" or "dark" the speaker's skin is. In response, the speaker cleverly mocks the landlady’s ignorance and prejudice, demonstrating th...

Unit - 2  The Unknown Citizen W.H.Auden  W. H. Auden was admired for his unsurpassed technical virtuosity and ability to write poems in nearly every imaginable verse form; his incorporation of popular culture, current events, and vernacular speech in his work; and also for the vast range of his intellect, which drew easily from an extraordinary variety of literature, art forms, social and political theories, and scientific and technical information.  The poem The Unknown Citizen is a model of conformity in a society where everyone must follow the rules if things are to run smoothly. The poem is a satire on the total lack of individuality in a state - controlled society. Summary of the poem The unknown citizen written by W.H.Auden is a model of conformity in a society where everyone must follow the rules of society if things are to run smoothly..The poem is satire of total lack of individuality in a state controlled society.The unknown citizen is a poem written in praise o...